Correction: Dori’s last name is TUCKER, not Cucker.TRAGIC BRUSHOFF – S.I. COPS ‘IGNORED’ KID-SNATCH WITNESS A Staten Island woman testified yesterday she saw Andre Rand at a bar with 7-year-old Holly Ann Hughes the night the little girl was abducted – but police brushed her off when she tried to offer help.

Dori Cucker said a detective told her police had already solved the case, and knew Holly Ann’s mother was responsible.

Cops didn’t contact Cucker until they reopened the case in 1998, 17 years after Holly Ann disappeared and was presumed murdered, she said.

Cucker, 51, told a Staten Island Supreme Court jury that she was waiting for a friend at the Hyatt Street Pub, in St. George, on July 15, 1981.

At about 10 p.m., she noticed a man buying a beer for himself and a Coke with lots of cherries for a young girl, she testified.

When the man turned to face Cucker, she noticed “his teeth were very bad. His eyes were dead looking, evil.”

She didn’t know the man then but from the witness stand yesterday she identified him as Rand, the convicted child molester now on trial for Holly Ann’s kidnapping.

Cucker also identified a photo of Holly as the little girl.

“She looked just like my daughter,” she said.

Cucker said she left for a half-hour to change clothes, and when she headed back to the bar, “I saw the man with the little girl coming up the hill.

“I was face to face with her. I asked her name. She told me ‘Holly.’ She said the man she was with had promised her a Coke with cherries,” the witness said.

“I asked her, ‘Is this Daddy?’ ” she added – but Rand said, “C’mon Holly, we have to go,” and started pulling her up the street.

“She kept looking back at me.”

The next day, Holly’s disappearance was the talk of the neighborhood, and when Cucker told people what she knew, she was urged to contact cops.

But when she found Detective Arthur Roberts and provided all the details she had, Cucker said, “He really didn’t want to be bothered taking my statement.

“He told me basically they already knew who did it.”

But cops didn’t mean Rand – who at one point was in custody but was released.

Outside court, Cucker recalled that Roberts told her, “We already know the mother did it. Her and her boyfriend.”

She said she called the 120th Precinct station house twice after that to offer information but wasn’t called back.

After her testimony, Cucker was hugged by Ed Armstrong, Holly Ann’s brother, himself a cop.

“We miss her so much and it hurts,” he said of his sister.

During cross-examination, defense attorney Larry Simon pointed out that in the original police report, Roberts claimed Cucker hadn’t seen the man’s face and couldn’t identify him.

“That’s not true,” she said. “I could identify him. He stood right next to me.”

She said when cops finally contacted her in 1998 about Rand, “it was like a godsend to put all this behind me.”